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A Novel Approach to the Challenges of Our Profession

Copywriter Collective

Having spent 16 years as an agency copywriter/creative director, 13 as a freelancer, and 10 as a copywriting professor, many of my personal experiences turn up in the career of the boomer character, Ted Canby. Ted’s formative years take place during the Creative Revolution, and he is fixated on traditional, non-digital media.

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People Round-Up, Mid-October 2022

Publishing Trends

Grace Rambo joins as Manager for Children’s Advertising and Paid Digital Media. At Avid Reader Press, David Kass joins as Senior Director of Publicity, beginning November 1; he was formerly VP, Executive Director of Publicity at Hilsinger-Mendelson. At SBR Media , Ena Burnette and Laura Pink both move up to Senior Agent.

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People Round-Up, Early April 2023

Publishing Trends

Most recently she was Division Director of Curriculum, Digital Media, and Communications at the Smithsonian Science Education Center. In agency news… Jana Hanson , formerly Agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency , joins D4EO Literary Agency as Agent. Previously she was Editor at HarperCollins Leadership.